You might be a Floridian if.

EVERY SINGLE THING IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE...............Someone with experience composed this list.

You might be a Floridian if:

You exhibit a slight twitch when introduced to anyone with the first names of Charley, Frances or Ivan.

Your freezer never has more than $20 worth of food in it any given time

You're looking at paint swatches for the plywood on your windows, to accent the house color

You think of your hall closet/saferoom as "cozy"

Your pool is more accurately described as "framed in" than "screened in"

Your freezer in the garage now only has homemade ice in it

You no longer worry about relatives visiting during the summer months

You too haven't heard back from the insurance adjuster

You now understand what that little "2% hurricane deductible" phrase really means

You're putting a collage together on your driveway of roof shingles from your neighborhood

You were once proud of your 16" electric chain saw

Your Street has more than 3 "NO WAKE" signs posted

You now own 5 large ice chests

Your parrot can now say" hammered, pounded and hunker down"

You recognize people in line at the free ice, gas and plywood locations

You stop what you're doing and clap and wave when you see a convoy of power company trucks come down your street

You're depressed when they don't stop

You have the personal cell phone numbers of the managers for: plywood, roofing supplies and generators at Home Depot on your speed dialer

You've spent more than $20 on "Tall white kitchen bags" to make your own sand bags

You're considering upgrading your 16" to a 20" chainsaw

You know what "Bar chain oil" is

You're thinking of getting your wife the hardhat with the ear protector and face shield for Christmas

You now think the $6000 whole house generator seems reasonable

You look forward to discussions about the merits of "cubed, block and dry ice"

Your therapist refers to your condition as "generator envy"

You fight the urge to put on your winter coat and wool cap and parade around in front of your picture window, when you finally get power and your neighbor across the street, with the noisy generator doesn't get electric

Did you see the "Blue Lightning" Saturday night? That was cool. Transformers exploding as trees and poles hit them.

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Originally posted by Love the Market:
Pharm:

Did you see the "Blue Lightning" Saturday night? That was cool. Transformers exploding as trees and poles hit them.

I saw one in the distance out my from door - may have been a mile away. But fortunately I never lost power.

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Hell yes! I saw plenty of it. I had power flickers, but never lost power for more than 5 or 10 seconds at a clip. Thought I might lose some electronics over it, but that didn't happen either.

I have enough tree debris to build a couple of new trees just where I want'em. The odd thing is that I have a fruit cocktail tree that's been leaning since Frances that has now 'uprighted' itself after Jeanne. I think I'm just going to 'stake' it in place and hope it's okay.

10. Decorating the house (boarding up windows)

9. Dragging out boxes that haven't been used since last season (camping gear, flashlights, etc.)

8. Last minute shopping in crowded stores

7. Regular TV shows pre-empted for "specials"

6. Family coming to stay with you

5. Family and friends from out-of-state calling

4. Buying food you don't normally buy .... and in large quantities

3. Days off from work

2. Candles

And the number one reason Hurricane Season is like Christmas ..

1. At some point, you know you're going to have a tree in your house!

... you have to get your football scores from the Monday morning paper.. ARRGH.

Just put a darn map in the corner showing where the thing is. When we're all stuck at home, the last thing we need to see is 24-7 footage on *every* station showing wrecked houses and moronic newscasters standing in the middle of the road talking about how dangerous it is to do so. We know it's raining dammit, now show me the game!!

-R

I said to my wife at one point, about the girl who was reporting "LIVE":

"She just babbled incessantly for 12 minutes about NOTHING"!

And don't ya love it when a reporter is being blown all over when he's interviewing someone, and says to them: "Don't you think it's too dangerous and pretty stupid to be out here"! LOL Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

Did you see that reporter Chris O'Donnell (I believe was his name) in the yellow rainsuit get blown away on his butt? It was on all stations! They were sharing footage. And that damned mattress - they made it sound like it came out of a wrecked house. It was probably out in the trash from Frances. And as it floated by the red fire hydrant - a REALLY SMART reporter said: "The water there must be 4-5 feet deep" yet the water was MAYBE 2 feet up the fire hydrant!